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6 days ago | 
thequint.com | Aishwarya Varma
The man was identified as Md Badruzzaman, the Congress party's district president for Unakoti, Tripura. A video showing a man arguing with a police officer, talking to her about how she was "threatening" him when she spoke about taking action against those responsible, is being shared on social media.
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1 week ago | 
thequint.com | Aishwarya Varma
The video dates back to February 2025 and shows bikers returning after a pilgrimage in Sangli, Maharashtra. A video showing a large group of bikers riding past police guiding them is being shared on social media, where users have claimed that it shows members of the Bajrang Dal arriving in West Bengal amid the violence in Murshidabad. (Archived versions of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here, here, here, and here.)Is it true?: No, neither is the video recent, nor is it from West Bengal.
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1 week ago | 
thequint.com | Aishwarya Varma
The video is an old one and does not show a Bengal MLA assaulting a policeman in West Bengal. A video of man assaulting a policeman has gone viral on social media, where users have claimed that it shows visuals from West Bengal's Murshidabad. The claim: The video is being shared with text in Hindi, which loosely translates to "Look at Bengal MLA Mansoor Mohammad Dimir.
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1 week ago | 
thequint.com | Aishwarya Varma
The video was made by content creator Mukleswar Ali and does not show a real incident. A video showing two men on a bike stopping to harass and pull the skullcap off the head of a person who appears to be a Muslim man is being shared on social media. The claim: The video is being shared to claim that it shows Hindus harassing a Muslim man, who retaliated strongly. It is being shared with the hashtag '#MuslimsUnderAttack'.
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1 week ago | 
thequint.com | Aishwarya Varma
We found no credible reports or statements which support the viral claim. A video showing actors Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan attending a funeral are being shared on social media. The claim: The video carries text and photographs of actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and claims that she passed away in a car accident. The posts claim to show the Bachchans attending her funeral.
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1 week ago | 
thequint.com | Aishwarya Varma
The audio in the clip has been altered using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. A video showing billionaire businessman Mukesh Ambani, his son Anant Ambani, and Indian cricketer Virat Kohli talking about an application called 'Aviator by Ambani', which helps people multiply their investments is being shared on social media. But...?: The video is altered and uses AI-generated audio to make the false claim about the 'Aviator' app.
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1 week ago | 
thequint.com | Aishwarya Varma |Khushi Mehrotra
We were able to trace back this video to August 2024 as one from Sri Lanka and not Hyderabad, as claimed. A video showing a herd of elephants crossing a road is being shared as one from Hyderabad following the destruction in the Kancha Gachibowli area. Those sharing wrote, "In Hyderabad, the whole elephant family set out to find a new home." (sic.) (Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.) Is the claim true?: No, the claim is false.
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2 weeks ago | 
thequint.com | Aishwarya Varma
Both videos are old and have no connection to the land clearing drives in Hyderabad by the Telangana government. A set of videos showing elephants and construction equipment — colloquially called JCB — have gone viral on social media, where users have linked them to recent deforestation drives at the Kancha Gachibowli forests near Hyderabad Central University. The first clip shows an elephant, lying on the ground, being pushed by a JCB.
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2 weeks ago | 
thequint.com | Aishwarya Varma
स्टुडिओ गिबली यांनी जपानी वृत्तसंस्था एनएचकेला सांगितले की, हे पत्र बनावट आहे आणि त्यांनी ते जारी केलेले नाही. जपानी ॲनिमेशन हाऊस स्टुडिओ गिबलीच्या कलाशैलीची नक्कल करणारे फोटो अपलोड करू शकणारे 'गिब' नावाचे अॅप तयार करण्याचा दावा करणाऱ्या एक्स (पूर्वीचे ट्विटर) युजर '@tj_littlejohn'ने एक पोस्ट शेअर करत दावा केला आहे की, स्टुडिओने या अॅप्लिकेशनवर 'Cease and desist' आदेश पाठवला आहे.
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2 weeks ago | 
thequint.com | Aishwarya Varma
Studio Ghibli told Japanese news outlet NHK that the letter was fake and that they had not issued it. An X (formerly Twitter) user '@tj_littlejohn', who claimed to create an app called 'Gib', where users could upload photos mimicking the art style of Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli, shared a post claiming that the studio had sent him a 'Cease and Desist' order over the application.
